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Fun power chord songs...

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njcnjc Frets: 0

Hi all.

I'm currently working on my fretboard knowledge and also my powerchord muting technique.

Can anyone recommend some good easy songs that are largely based on straightforward power chords, if possible providing the chords would be great too ;-)

Ones I've been using to this point are Since you've been gone, Smells like teen spirit, Iron Man... - so I guess looking for stuff of that ilk really..

Cheers Guys.

NJC.

 

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  • vizviz Frets: 10644
    edited October 2013
    There's one called smoke on the water. It uses the tonic and the dominant below. So if playing in G, the first chord is x55xxx.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • Hertz32Hertz32 Frets: 2248
    Try Holiday by Green Day, Super easy that one ;) A quick google should provide a TAB...
    'Awibble'
    Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100 
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    viz said:
    There's one called smoke on the water. It uses the tonic and the dominant below. So if playing in G, the first chord is x55xxx.

    But the riff can be played

    xx00xx   xx33xx   xx55xx   xx00xx - xx33xx  xx66xx  xx55xx

    Any number of punk songs are pretty much power chords.

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    Or if you're feeling brave a lot of early thrash (Metallica/Megadeth/Slayer etc) metal is power chords interspersed with open (heavily muted) low E

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • bigjonbigjon Frets: 680

    Wild Thing

    Louie Louie

    You Really Got Me

    American Idiot

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  • Had to do 99 Red Balloons for a wedding recently. That was a lot of fun and surprisingly challenging on the right hand.
    E F# A B I think.
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    Pretty Vacant. Most fun you can have with your clothes on.

    The intro is the 3 notes of an A power chord. Root, octave, root, fifth ( IIRC), each times 2 and then repeat until the drummer remembers to come in. You can Google the tab easy enough.
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700

    Sex Pistols

    Anarchy in the UK

    Holidays in the sun

    Thin Lizzy

    Jail break

    Don't believe a word (single note riff/ 5 chords)

    Judas Priest

    Breaking the law

     

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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17485
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    Everything black sabbath like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sweet Leaf, etc. 
    Kiss are great for power chord riffs Dr Love, Love Gun and Making Love are three examples containing the word "love"
    Basketcase has "all" the powerchords 
    California Punk in general is Power Chord central. All The Small Things by Blink 182, most of the Sum 41 stuff. 
    Riffs that mix power chords with augmented chords are cool like One VIsion. 

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  • davewwdaveww Frets: 165
    Everlong. It's in drop D but fun and pretty easy to play. Mainly just power chords plus the octave bit where the timings a bit hard to get right.
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700

    @monquixote ; in my (limited) knowledge of Kiss, I thought they used more sus chords rather than power chords?

    I'll also suggest Iron Maiden

    Running Free

    Wrathchild

     

    Anti-nowhere league (covered by Metallica)

    So What

    Or if the mrs/kids aren't within earshot

    WASP

    Animal

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  • vizviz Frets: 10644
    edited November 2013
    mike_l said:
    viz said:
    There's one called smoke on the water. It uses the tonic and the dominant below. So if playing in G, the first chord is x55xxx.

    But the riff can be played

    xx00xx   xx33xx   xx55xx   xx00xx - xx33xx  xx66xx  xx55xx

    Any number of punk songs are pretty much power chords.


    You can indeed but it's much less natural and doesn't have the same beefy sound. Much better to do it like blackmore does. I mean x55xxx xx33xx xx55xx etc.
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17485
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    mike_l said:

    @monquixote ; in my (limited) knowledge of Kiss, I thought they used more sus chords rather than power chords?

    Bit of a mixed bag, but nearly all their songs have big riffs and are really easy to play. 

    Lots of stuff with fifths, lots of power chord riffs, plenty of who / stones type triad riffs some nice chromatic single note stuff. 
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  • KebabkidKebabkid Frets: 3301
    Sunshine of your love by Cream
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  • All the above, plus Undertones, Teenage Kicks.
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  • The Ramones? Loads of their songs based around power chords.
    The Who - Can't Explain & My Generation.
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  • viz;72549" said:
    Much better to do it like blackmore does. I mean x55xxx xx33xx xx55xx etc.
    He didn't when I saw him - he just handed the guitar to the bass player!
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • For whom the bell tools is a good one.learn to play it hetfield style in one position using different fingers to play each power chord without moving your hands
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    Also Metallica's One. The heavy part after the clean picked arpeggio's especially (where he sings "Hold my breath....."

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  • vizviz Frets: 10644
    viz;72549" said:
    Much better to do it like blackmore does. I mean x55xxx xx33xx xx55xx etc.
    He didn't when I saw him - he just handed the guitar to the bass player!

    Lol he's a boy ain't he!
    Roland said: Scales are primarily a tool for categorising knowledge, not a rule for what can or cannot be played.
    Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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